You know how this starts

  • Some data, maybe a lot of data
  • Maybe a database
  • Extra analysis tools
  • More computing horsepower
  • Before you know it, you end up with…




Eventually, some of those arrows connect to R.

Yuck!


SciDB streaming API




High compute/data ratios benefit from elastic compute



Elastic computing with R and Redis on Amazon EC2



Amazon EC2 Recipe

  1. Instantiate a Linux image
  2. Install R and desired packages, including doRedis
  3. Run the doRedis service installer script
  4. Make an AMI from this instance
  5. Re-launch from AMI as needed, supplying config as EC2 user data